On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 05:21:01PM -0400, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Zello Is considering 2) & 3) below. It would be good to have opinions > on Legality of these approaches. Ask lawyers about legality. There are legal folks willing to help on the free software side. One obvious comment as a non-lawyer: It is normally considered that to write a free driver having read non-free code (or a non free one with a different licence) that you should have different people writing the driver who haven't seen the original code using documentation describing the device *not the code* from people who have (ie a 'clean room') > 3) - we can move the usb driver in userspace (if it's possible, I did > not try as I ain't got an usb modem to test), using /proc/bus/usb & > libusb. There's no need to adhere to gpl if we stay in userland. > Moreover, since libusb seems to be portable, it would be a step > towards porting slusb & slmodem under *bsd and other unices. I don't > know if I got the skills, but I got no modem to test, that's sure. It should be possible. Linux 2.4 can't handle a few cases this way but libusb and 2.6 should be able to drive pretty much any USB device sanely. For #2 I guess it depends how easy it is to document the behaviour and how complex the device behaviour is. Alan -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
